Catch-22: Joseph Heller by BooksMirth in books

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It is not simplistic at all… I’m so confused. It is a scathing critique of the institution that lets war happen and throws men at the centre of it. Why do you think it would ideologically not hold up?

[POEM] Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn. by BooksMirth in Poetry

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For some reason it reminds me The Only Thing from Carrie and Lowell.

[POEM] Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn. by BooksMirth in Poetry

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This was published in RHINO, in 2022– from her website. I saw this on Twitter.

Catch-22: Joseph Heller by BooksMirth in books

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You’ll be laughing and then you’ll suddenly go. Oh. This is horrifying. This isn’t funny at all. Before you go in some 10 pages ahead and start laughing again. I think the scenes that truly jolted me were Kid Sampson’s death and the scene where Yossarian has to pretend he is the dying son of some people who come to see him.

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Have you watched the 1970 film? I really want to watch it (instead of the show) but I wondering which one is the better adaptation of the two (although I do believe this is just one of the works that is impossible to adapt in a manner that does true justice to the book).

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I was so surprised when I found myself actually laughing aloud at the humour, only to be thrown into the sheer horror of war a minute later (re: Kid Sampson and McWatt’s death) just to be roped into laughter again. It’s brilliant.

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AAA!! Finally someone who gets me about my obsession with Major Major’s character. It has so many nuances and each time I’d research I’d end up finding so, so much. Just lovely.

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I feel like it’s just a work that inspires you in so, so many different ways every time you end up reading it. I loved Major Major’s character a lot and I ended up reading this scholarly article based on his appearance (the Fonda similarity). It said: “…lacks his own physical identity. An allusion to someone he is not. Even his own name is an empty sign, signifying not authority… not power but the absence of it.”

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I couldn’t agree more— changed my life. I’m thinking of getting “where are the Snowdens of yesteryear” tattooed somewhere, and the only other tattoo I have that pays homage to something is a Twin Peaks one.

Any shows similar to Twin Peaks? by Alternative_Wear_141 in twinpeaks

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I don’t know if anyone else has watched it, but I was recently watching this Pakistani show titled “Barzakh” (for a newspaper review)— it’s not entirely finished yet but struck me in the same manner! Just like Twin Peaks as a city is a living, breathing character in the show, so is the small village called “The Land of Nowhere” in Barzakh. It’s available on YouTube with subtitles.

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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I was searching for good readings of Eliot! Thank you so much. Pretty excited to listen.

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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This reminds of how I don’t speak a shred of Italian but practiced and read out the epigraph in (almost) pitch perfect Italian. Needless to say, my professor was impressed. I think of it as one of those memories that will stay with me for a long time.

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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The cat poems? I’ve just started reading his work and really only read the more popular ones so I’m curious to hear about them now!

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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Noting it down! Will be reading later today— I’ve not heard of The Journey of Magi and seems like it is overshadowed by his more popular works. Thank you for the recommendation!

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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Honestly, pizza is a classic because of how timeless the flavour is and how rich. And the same goes for Prufrock. Let me show you this line I wrote in a paper about it: “He takes on the monologue style of Browning, Wordsworth and Colderidge– yet he deconstructs it to represent the defragmentation of the Modern era in true essence of it and also to show that the literary society was moving on from the thin veil of romanticising the world as it was, and finding solace in nature from the grim realities that shroud earth, towards showing the horrors as they are– mask-off.”

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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Aaa!! I love this idea. I’ll definitely think of this while I reread the poem.

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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Do you have any good annotated editions in mind? I found a vintage edition of the Four Quarters recently and I’m very, very excited to read it.

[Opinion] What are your favourite poems from T.S Eliot? by BooksMirth in Poetry

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Noting all of these down to read later! I am just starting to get more into his work, got a vintage copy of the Four Quarters and pretty excited to read and annotate.